Facts, opinions, rumors and innuendoes about the theater scene in Spokane, Washington
Monday, April 27, 2009
Please silence all electronic devices ... and yourselves, you inconsiderate baboons
Actually, most baboons are more considerate than a lot of theatergoers these days.
Bobo thought he had witnessed some doozies of clueless theater behavior, but wait'll you read John Moore's *Denver Post* article.
So it may be too late to follow Moore's act, but ... hey, local Spokane theater persons, what incidents of boorish behavior have *you* witnessed? (Names disguised to protect the guilty, please.)
Endless chatter, compulsive texting -- Bobo's seen most of it, if not all. I find that turning around and simply staring (with a neutral expression, but right in the offender's face, works nicely). The worst? Actually occurred during a Symphony on the Edge concert at what's now the Knitting Factory. Naturally, it happened during a quiet musical passage. Loud cell ring. "Who's this?" in the braying tones of Elizabeth Taylor in *Virginia Woolf?* So the [uncomplimentary epithet] walks over into an open stairwell and CONTINUES TALKING LOUDLY and now with an extra added ECHO EFFECT.
We had her boiled alive and ate her liver with a nice Chianti.
[ photo: Denis Theater Foundation, Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania ]
Okay, do we actually have to get an Inlander to read your "Graduate" review? What's the holdup?
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